Su Zimo no longer had any doubts when he saw how the haughty man and white bloused woman had fallen into the bottomless abyss.
There was no way anyone who fell into the abyss would die.
The fact that the two of them possessed mutated spirit roots had already alerted the peak master of Misty Peak – how could they die so easily?
However, Su Zimo did not know what would happen to those who fell into the abyss.
Su Zimo shifted horizontally, avoiding the crane's line of sight as he sped towards the peak.
Even though he only had one hand, Su Zimo's toes were as nimble as his fingers after removing his shoes. Digging into the walls of the mountain, he climbed upwards rapidly.
The crane was extremely sensitive as it circled in midair and arrived above Su Zimo's head. It cried out twice with a mocking look in its eyes, as though it was mocking Su Zimo's cleverness.
The man and crane finally met.
…
On the other side, there were two middle-aged Taoist priests sitting opposite each other on the summit of a mountain. Both of them were dressed in white robes. However, one of them had a flying sword embroidered on his cuff, while the other had a hexagonal symbol embroidered on his cuff.
Both of them sipped their tea leisurely.
Beside the two middle-aged priests stood a skinny child who seemed to be saying something with an agitated expression.
"Hmm? Mutated spirit roots? And there are two of them? "
One of the middle-aged taoist priests' expression changed slightly as he put down his teacup and asked.
The skinny child nodded hurriedly.
The other middle-aged taoist priest asked, "What are their spirit roots?"
The skinny child replied, "One of them is a wind spirit root while the other is an ice spirit root."
When they heard that, the two middle-aged taoist priests exchanged glances and smiled, seemingly satisfied.
"Wen Xuan, Spirit Peak is going to have two more geniuses."
Misty Peak had six peaks. The tallest one in the middle was the true Misty Peak that could be seen from the outside.
Misty Peak was surrounded by five other peaks – Spirit Peak, Elixir Peak, Talisman Peak, Array Peak and Weapon Peak.
The taoist priest called Wen Xuan was the one with the flying sword embroidered on his sleeve – he was the peak master of Spirit Peak.
The other was Xuan Yi, the peak master of Array Peak.
Anyone who could become the peak masters of the five peaks was definitely a Perfected Jin Dan.
Even though the five peaks had their own strengths, Spirit Peak was the leader with the most disciples. Spirit Peak valued cultivation realm and everything they taught was about killing techniques of cultivators.
If a mutated or heaven spirit root were to appear, they would be chosen by Spirit Peak.
Standing, Wen Xuan smiled. "I'll go take a look. Let's see how many trims those two fellas will survive."
"Don't worry, people with mutated spiritual roots are blessed with luck. They will definitely be able to survive the two tribulations." A mocking look flashed through the eyes of Array Peak's master, Xuan Yi, as he teased, "Look at how anxious you are. Even as a peak master, you can't hold it in anymore."
"Let's go, let's go take a look....."
Wen Xuan laughed loudly and pulled Xuan Yi's wrist, wanting to leave together.
Xuan Yi shook his head and quickly retreated. He smiled, "I'm not going. Seeing such a good seedling being taken in by Spirit Peak, I'm just asking for trouble."
Right then, a chubby child arrived on his flying sword, panting heavily.
"Peak master! N-No! This is bad!"
"Hmm?"
The two Peak Masters glanced at each other in surprise.
"Junior brother, why are you here as well?" The skinny child walked up and asked.
The chubby child was sweating profusely as he waved his chubby hands. "Peak master, the spirit testing gate exploded!"
"Exploded?"
Wen Xuan and Xuan Yi exchanged glances in confusion.
Wen Xuan asked, "Why did the spirit testing gate explode? Did someone destroy it? "
"No."
The chubby child shook his head before nodding. "Yes! No, no, no! "
The two peak masters were confused by the chubby child.
"What's going on? Speak properly!" Wen Xuan pulled a long face and hollered.
In the mind of the fat Dao child, he could not help but recall the words of the green-robed scholar. Subconsciously, he imitated the words and said with a serious face, "Perhaps the Spirit Testing Gate has been exposed to the elements for a long time and has not been maintained for a long time, causing it to break down..."
Bam!
Wen Xuan extended his finger and flicked the chubby child on the head.
"Ow!"
The chubby child clutched his head and pouted his lips, looking aggrieved.
"What a load of nonsense."
Xuan Yi could not help but chuckle. "Who taught you that? You can't say it yourself, can you?"
"There was a scholar who said so." The chubby child continued, "However, I feel that he made sense. He even kindly told me to take note of the sect in the future to take care of some of the ancient buildings, lest …"
Bam!
It was another flick.
A huge red bump appeared on the chubby child's head.
The chubby child was about to cry from the slap as he asked with watery eyes, "Peak master, why are you always hitting me?"
"Child, you're way too dumb. Even if you're sold off in the future, you'll still have to count the money for them," Xuan Yi did not know to laugh or to cry.
Wen Xuan said in a deep voice, "Tell me the entire story. Don't hide anything."
"There was a scholar with a bow and saber. He came to the spirit testing gate and it showed that he had a fire spirit root," The chubby child said.
"Continue."
"However, the spirit testing gate refused to let him in and the scholar barged in. Thereafter, the spirit testing gate exploded."
Wen Xuan and Xuan Yi frowned and exchanged glances – they still did not understand.
Wen Xuan pressed on, "Are you sure it's a fire spirit root?"
"That's right!"
The chubby child explained hurriedly, "Peak master, you've got to believe me! Even though I'm a little dumb, I can tell that it's a fire spirit root!"
"That's strange," Xuan Yi was perplexed.
After pondering for a moment, Xuan Yi said, "Wen Xuan, I'll go with you to check out the background of that scholar."
Without using any spirit weapons, the two of them soared into the air and sped towards the front of the mountain with the chubby and skinny children.
Before long, the four of them arrived at the location of the spirit testing gate.
"It's indeed shattered."
Xuan Yi looked at the broken spirit testing gate beneath his feet and murmured softly.
Wen Xuan asked, "Where is that scholar?"
"Eh? He's gone," The chubby child looked around.
Suddenly, Xuan Yi said, "That's not right. They've already ascended the mountain and the Eight Distresses Formation in the abyss has already been activated. Yes, the two fellas with the variant spirit roots are inside as well. "
Wen Xuan asked hurriedly, "How is it? How many tribulations have those two survived?"
"Life and Death Tribulations. You can rest assured now," Xuan Yi smiled.
Pausing for a moment, Xuan Yi shook his head. "There's no bow-wielding scholar in the Eight Distresses Formation. He must have left long ago because he was afraid."
Wen Xuan harrumphed softly. "I don't know where this lad came from. He destroyed our Ethereal Sect's spirit testing gate and left just like that. How insolent!"
"Caw, caw!"
Right then, two hurried cries of cranes sounded from the clouds far away.
Wen Xuan and Xuan Yi turned towards the sound.
On a mountain peak far away, a figure was agile and light, twisting and turning on the precipitous cliff without falling. While avoiding the attacks of the cranes, he still had the strength to climb towards the peak.
There was still some distance to the peak and even with Perfected Being Jin Dan's vision, he could not see clearly in the clouds.
"Xuan Yi, look! There's a monkey over there!" Wen Xuan pointed to the black figure on the mountain peak.
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